William Howard Taft Quotes

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• Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

  William Howard Taft

  Long, People, Care

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• We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Sacrifice, Greatness

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• Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

  William Howard Taft

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Presidential

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Government, Self

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• Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

  William Howard Taft

  Fitness, Presidential, Vitamins

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• No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

  William Howard Taft

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "Mr. Capone". Book by Robert J. Schoenberg, 1992.

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• I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

  William Howard Taft

  Real, Thinking, Patriotism

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• Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

  William Howard Taft

  Judgement, Enthusiasm, Causes

  William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”

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• If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Play, Able

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• The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.

  William Howard Taft

  Winning, Men, Average

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• The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

  William Howard Taft

  Success, Presidential, World

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.126, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

  William Howard Taft

  Cheerful, Loser, Winner

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• Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

  William Howard Taft

  Forever, President, Goes On

  "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft". Book by Henry F. Pringle, 1939.

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• We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Perfect, Can Not

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Dedication, Knowing

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• Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Character, Patriotic

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• The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

  William Howard Taft

  Exercise, Power, President

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.200, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

  William Howard Taft

  Rights, Self, People

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential messages to Congress”

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• Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

  William Howard Taft

  Taken, Evil, Progress

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.157, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

  William Howard Taft

  School, Rights, Government

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• Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Humor, President

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• Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

  William Howard Taft

  Weed, Cutting, America

  "Anti-Semitism in the United States". Address to the Anti Defamation League in Chicago, Illinois, December 23, 1920.

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• The City that knows how.

  William Howard Taft

  Cities, San Francisco, Know How

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• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  William Howard Taft

  Too Much, Trouble, Speakers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Bills, Child Labor

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